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| Boston Bomb Suspect Drove over Brother |
| 2013-04-21 |
| [An Nahar] Boston bombing suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev drove over his dying brother to escape a gunbattle with police, the police chief of the town where the manhunt ended said Saturday. Dzhokhar and Tamerlan Tsarnaev also hurled a pressure cooker bomb, like one used in the marathon attack, at officers chasing them in the early hours of Friday, Watertown's police chief Edward Devau told CNN. Tamerlan Tsarnaev, 26, died in the shootout while his brother, 19, eluded capture until late Friday, when he was found hiding in a boat in Watertown. Devau told how Dzhokhar ran over his brother, dragging the body down the street as he beat feet from police, who had trapped the older brother. The suspects were involved in the killing of a police officer at Massachusetts Institute of Technology and then stole a Mercedes, sparking a chase to Watertown, in the Boston suburbs, according to the police account. Devau said two off-duty police were helping four officers who confronted the brothers in the overnight shootout. "We estimate that over 200 shots were fired over a five-to-10 minute period," Devau said, adding that the brothers also hurled a pressure cooker bomb and other homemade explosives. "We found a pressure cooker embedded in a car down the street" after it caused "a major kaboom during this shootout," Devau said. Two homemade grenades went kaboom!and two others failed to go off. Another device was found in an abandoned car, he said. Devau told how Tamerlan Tsarnaev suddenly emerged "and just starts walking down the street shooting at our coppers trying to get closer." When the suspected bomber ran out of ammunition, two or three police overpowered him and were trying to handcuff him when the other brother drove the carjacked black Mercedes at them, said the police chief. "One of them yells 'look out," said Devau. "They dive out of the way and he runs over his brother and drags him a short distance down the street." Doctors officially pronounced Tamerlan dead at the hospital, where his brother is now being treated. Dzhokhar drove off amid more gunfire, but two or three streets down, "he dumps the car and runs into the darkness in the streets. Then we lost contact with him," said Devau. Dzhokhar Tsarnaev was eventually cornered, maimed and hiding in a boat that was being stored in someone's backyard. Devau said that the suspect made no statement at the scene. |
| Posted by:Fred |
| #4 And if you expect anything from the federal AG..... |
| Posted by: CrazyFool 2013-04-21 11:26 |
| #3 P2K, if it's the Mass AG he'll walk easy-peasy. Martha Coakley (yes I'm a Masshole) is the most partisan, flaming liberal, incompetent hack it is possible to imagine. |
| Posted by: AlanC 2013-04-21 11:24 |
| #2 It tickles my fancy that he was taken to Beth Israel hospital for treatment. Bet that gets his little islamonazi panties in a twist. |
| Posted by: Barbara 2013-04-21 10:15 |
| #1 .. also hurled a pressure cooker bomb.. I don't think they need to worry about Miranda. If the AG can't make this stick with with all the physical evidence they have, he/she needs to be fired and replaced before the rituals begin. |
| Posted by: Procopius2k 2013-04-21 08:47 |